PKCε Signalling Activates ERK1/2, and Regulates Aggrecan, ADAMTS5, and miR377 Gene Expression in Human Nucleus Pulposus Cells

• Emmanouella Tsirimonaki ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Emmanouella Tsirimonaki, Constantinos Fedonidis

  Affiliation Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece

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• Constantinos Fedonidis ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Emmanouella Tsirimonaki, Constantinos Fedonidis

  Affiliation Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece

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• Spiros G. Pneumaticos,

  Affiliations Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece, Department of Orthopedics, Athens Medical School, University of Athens, Athens, Greece

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• Adamantios A. Tragas,

  Affiliation Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece

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• Ioannis Michalopoulos,

  Affiliation Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece

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• Dimitra Mangoura

  * E-mail: mangoura@bioacademy.gr

  Affiliation Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece

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